Nitrogen bases
The base that pairs with adenine
What is thymine?
The enzyme in charge of "unzipping" the DNA strand
What is helicase?
The last step of DNA replication
What step creates two strands of DNA?
The shape of DNA
What is double helix
The base that pairs with guanine
The enzyme that joins together the okazaki fragments
What is ligase?
How many chromosomes do humans have?
What is 46?
RNA stands for
What is Ribonucleic acid?
The complementary strand to ATA GTC
What is TAT CAG
The enzyme that can only move from 3' to 5' in the original strand
What is Polymerase?
The first step in DNA replication
What is separating the 2 strands?
The monomers of DNA
What are nucleotides?
Percentage of guanine if cytosine is 19%
What is 19%
__ and __ bonds, bond the bases, sugars, and phosphates
The backbone portion of the DNA double helix that provides structural support to the molecule
What is phosphate
What is antiparallel
The percentage of cytosine when adenine is 31%
What is 38%
Hydrogen bonding is weaker than _____ bonding
What is covalent
DNA is called _____ because the new double helix in DNA replication contains one old and one new strand
semiconservative
The protein that can catalyze the formation of phosphodiester
What is DNA ligase